iSTORY OF
 

CHAPTER II.

Cosmogony, or Creation of the World: with a
multitude of excellent theories, by which the
creation of a world is shown to be no such
difficult  matter as  common folk would ima^

gine.
 

Having thus briefly introduced my reader to
the world, find given him some idea of its form
and situation, he will naturally be curious to know
from whence it came, and how it was created.
And indeed the clearing up of these points is ab¬
solutely essential to my history, in as much as if
this world had not been formed, it is more than
probable, that this renowned island on which is
situated the city of New York, would never have
had an existenjce. The regular course of my his¬
tory, therefore*requires that I should proceed to
notice the cosmogony or formation of this our
globe.

And now I give my readers fair warning, that I
am about to plunge for a chapter or two, into as
complete a labyrinth as ever historian was per¬
plexed withal: therefore I advise them to take fast
hold of my skirts, and keep close at my heels,
venturing neither to the right hand nor to the left,
lest they get bemired in a slough of unintelligible